About taste of the Armenian dishes known not only in their homeland.Perhaps there is no such place on the planet, where it had not heard, or did not like not prepared dishes from the Armenian cuisine.Juicy shish kebab, from which comes the dizzying smell khorovats - roasted vegetables, had time to soak up the smell of smoke, the most tender in the world dolma, which is prepared without the use of fat ... Just some of these descriptions are beginning to flow salivating.A khashlama?This is another yummy deserving eloquent words.
Background
Before we talk about how to prepare Khashlama, talk a little about the formation of the Armenian national cuisine.It is as old as the country itself.Culinary traditions of Armenia has neither more nor less - two thousand years.From the very beginning of this nation its representatives engaged in cattle breeding.Therefore, the abundance and diversity of poultry and livestock could only envy.Thus, on the tables of the Armenians has always been an incredible amount of meat.Cattle reflected in the composition of various dairy dishes.Basically it burdyuchnye brine cheese and jug.No less popular character and fermented milk products.Of these, quite often made drinks and traditional Armenian cuisine.
Agriculture in Armenia - the same ancient craft, as well as cattle.Hence, a wide range of crops in a food business.Also, many Armenian dishes contain legumes.A lot of greens and vegetables - another feature dishes of the country.
Armenians always cooked on the fire.Toning - a traditional hearth furnace of clay, which is widely used in modern cooking of the country.It is cooked all kinds of cereal, soups, baked bread, baked vegetables, smoked poultry and fish, cook a variety of other dishes.
Well meatless
Armenian meat dishes - is a cult.The most ancient and simple meals pastynery belong, of course, barbecue, dishes of whole poultry carcasses, meat kchuchi.They are today prepared in accordance with techniques that have been applied and a half thousand years ago.The most popular and khashlama.
How to cook Khashlama knows every Armenian, although today is quite difficult to determine exactly what kind of a national cuisine it relates.All the peoples of the Caucasus believe this food is their traditional dishes.But in all countries khashlama preparing different ways.
Some features Khashlama
This stewed meat, which requires a lot of time to cook.Young carcass need to simmer on low heat for about three to four hours.If the meat is older, then the time it will take twice as much.Khashlama has one feature.Its creation would have to buy three times more meat than all the other ingredients.Bouillon also need to take quite a bit.
Khashlama How to cook?It all depends on the recipe of the people you do it.For example, in Georgia, it put a lot of vegetables and greens.Cooks of other states in their recipes use different spices and beer.There are many ways to cook Khashlama and rather difficult to specify the most loyal of them.
most important rules
To prepare Khashlama, you can buy any meat.It does not always have to be a fillet or tenderloin.Suit beef, lamb, veal, and pork is rarely used.The meat can be bone or be without it.Intending to make a dish with vegetables, cook them must be cut into large chunks.Then put in the meat already cooked.First put a bow, behind him - potato, eggplant, tomatoes, and more.There is no need to salt the dish in his longing.This spice is placed either in five minutes before the end of extinguishing or already cooked dish.To submit Khashlama not use plates.It is presented in bowls from clay.
Khashlama Chicken
Although the most common fodder for the preparation of this dish is the lamb, chicken can also be used.In principle, khashlama poultry such as delicious as lamb.For dishes need the following ingredients:
- One kilogram of chicken meat.
- hundred grams of frozen green beans.
- Five potatoes.
- One onion.
- Two bell peppers.
- One large carrots.
- Three tomatoes.
- three cloves of garlic.
- salt and spices.
Please boil bird.Onions and carrots cut and fry in a cauldron.Now add chopped peppers and hold it on the stove for about five minutes, but do not forget to occasionally stir the vegetables.While all this was languishing, remove the rind from the tomatoes and cut them.Tomatoes also spread into the cauldron and give the products put out another five minutes.Then fill them with chicken broth and boil the resulting soup.Cut the potatoes into slices, spread it in a bowl of vegetables and bring to a boil.The bird was cut into small pieces, add them to the broth and then put the beans.Season with salt, sprinkle with spices and continue to cook the dish, until cooked potatoes.Khashlama Chicken - it's not just delicious, but incredibly flavorful.Try this delicacy once, you can not deny myself the pleasure to cook it again and again.
How to be a lamb?
Khashlama To prepare the traditional meat-based sheep need much of the same foods as for chicken dishes, but with some changes.Next, we describe in detail about what the components are included in the dish, how to cook.Khashlama lamb - a traditional dish, the recipe of which is known, perhaps, every resident of Armenia.
So, take two kilograms of meat, tomatoes and bell peppers, half a kilogram of onions, to a large bunch of parsley and dill.You should also prepare a half cup of light beer varieties, one kilogram of potatoes and young to taste black pepper, bell pepper, basil, salt, spice mix mutton.It's best to buy ribs, while the Armenian khashlama might look like it is prepared in the country of origin.Pre-need to cut across the ram side.After the formation of the knife cut into pieces and add them to the bowl.
Now
vegetables Vegetables cut in the following way: tomatoes and peppers circles, semicircles large onions, greens into large chunks.Prepared in a large dish about vosmilitrovom cauldron.It layers begin to pack half of all products: first the onion, then meat, then peppers and tomatoes.Top sprinkle lots of greens, salt and add half the seasoning.Now you can spread the remaining products from top layers in the same order.When everything is laid, it fills Khashlama beer.Tight-fitting lid cauldron and put it on the stove.On low heat for one hour tormented dish.During this time, we prepare a side dish of new potatoes.When all the dishes to cook, begin the meal.Bon Appetit!
modern influences
Thanks to current technology khashlama (photo shown above) is going much faster.Make it possible to multivarka which have at their disposal many housewives.Take these products:
- every 800 grams of meat.
- two carrots.
- Two eggplant.
- Two tomatoes.
- one bulb.
- Three sweet peppers.
- 300 grams of mushrooms.
- Salt and spices to taste.
biggest work that will need to perform is cutting vegetables.The cup Multivarki alternately laid all products.The first layer - onions, chopped semirings, the second - carrots (rings), the third - coarsely chopped meat.Now add the salt and pepper, eggplant (half rings).Then salt and fungi decompose.The very last stage - tomatoes.Sprinkle spices.Select mode "quenching" and leave Khashlama three hours.
Now the reader knows different ways of how to prepare Khashlama.
